@SkinnerPm What it means is that if we try to do something like Venezuela they could retaliate directly against Florida. And I doubt we have any real countermeasures to stop the drones from hitting things.
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mark glanden
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Oh give me a break with this garbage.
Axios@axios
EXCLUSIVE: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack U.S assets, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios. The intelligence could become a pretext for U.S. military action. axios.com/2026/05/17/us-…
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@danpfeiffer Holy cow, 300 drones! Owned by a country that has never attacked us and is infinitely weaker? Gotta take them out
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Real Iraq War vibes here. Classified intelligence shared with reporters to sell a war to a skeptical public
Axios@axios
EXCLUSIVE: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack U.S assets, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios. The intelligence could become a pretext for U.S. military action. axios.com/2026/05/17/us-…
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It was because we didn't have social media to allow racists to rile each other up. If anyone was bothered by it they had to do so in private.
Magills@magills_
In the 1997 Armand Assante version of The Odyssey the great Vanessa Williams (left) was cast as Calypso in the Greek epic and no one was outraged because she was unbelievably hot.
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It freaks me out that second graders who never experienced school closures still aren't back to pre-pandemic reading levels.
Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS)@jean_twenge
Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.
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@Noahpinion @devahaz They spend all their time messing up every food they encounter.
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@devahaz Ok so why does the UK have the same fertility crisis
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Japan has a fertility crisis because they spend all their time obsessed at perfecting every food and drink they encounter anywhere in the world
New York Post@nypost
Surprise! The best pizza in NYC is at this new Japanese restaurant trib.al/h4SQyip
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@ChrisCillizza I'm an elementary school teacher. It is bad and none of the current thinking of our leadership has an effective response to this. They think their ideas work and we just need to implement them better.
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The scandal hiding in plain sight is the collapse of American education.
And no 2028 candidates -- aside from Rahm Emanuel -- are talking about it.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Reading scores for students in grades 3 through 8 have fallen in 47 of 50 states since 2015.
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@conorsen This headline caused me to sell stocks and miss out on the huge gains the market has had since then.
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Hard to know the counterfactual if AI never happens.
Christopher Clarke@EconChrisClarke
Never Forget. Oct 17, 2022. It never came to pass.
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NO space battle (in Star Wars or elsewhere) can touch the Battle of Endor.
It has it all: excellent storytelling, beautiful cinematography, and special effects that put best CGI films to shame!
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@nikicaga If only they could have communicated it better. Best results from anywhere in the world.
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What Biden and Powell pulled off with the soft landing was genuinely insane and no one but policy nerds will ever give them credit for it
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
INFLATION NOW OUTPACING PAYCHECKS Inflation is once again rising faster than wages, putting Americans under growing financial pressure for the first time in about three years. Consumer prices climbed 3.8% over the past year, while wages rose just 3.6%, meaning many workers are losing purchasing power.
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Remember when pitchers threw, batters hit and you kept a few key stats in your head and watched the damned games?!? Now we're all supposed to be a analytics nerds!!
Cubs Prospects - Bryan Smith@cubprospects
Cubs have massive upside in Kaleb Wing. Pitch shape data from last start: 4 sm up to 95.1 in velo, but more, up to 22 IVB (avg 19). Elite ride. Changeup generated 10 whiffs on 14 swings. 60/65 pitch already. Flashing 83-87 mph sliders with massive Max Meyer-ish vertical bite.
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@BrianSozzi Their end case of an agreement ratified by the UN will not happen in 3 weeks.
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JP Morgan on oil prices/Strait of Hormuz:
"A core assumption of our framework is that the accelerating pace of oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, one way or another. Our base case envisions the Strait reopens in June—anchored on June 1 for simplicity—following a clear and credible announcement ratified and confirmed by both sides, such as a statement from the UN Security Council."
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@OliverJia1014 TFA was decent, TLJ was ok, RoS was terrible. When the last movie of a trilogy can't pull the story together it diminishes the rest.
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No they don’t. The average person IRL has given up on Star Wars *because* of the sequel trilogy. Even the prequels are spoken of more fondly.
The minority of ST fans are online and they live in a bubble. It’s fine if you enjoyed them, but the majority of people didn’t.
jacob@jtimsuggs
More people actually like (or at the very least, enjoy) the Sequel Trilogy than people online would probably have you believe.
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@trygraptor @FilmaticFury It had a stronger mood / atmosphere I think. Patrick Stewart was a better Gurney Halleck also. Otherwise, yeah the new one is definitely better.
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@FilmaticFury i love it i can’t lie. it’s not even close to the Villeneuve Dunes but i still love it
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Dune 1984 is the equivalent of looking at a stoneburner
Cinema Connoisseur@MovieEndorser
Dune (2021) or Dune (1984)?
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@ToddZolecki Rob Thompson: "I think they're trying to do too much".
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Trea Turner: “That’s how dumb this game is. It makes no sense.”
Turner said he probably took 1,000 swings over four days, including 350 on Friday. He went 0-for-6 on Friday to extend his hitless streak to 11 at-bats.
So, he took ZERO swings before Saturday's game. He went 4-for-5.
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@bdquinn Most regular people have no idea what actually happens. They remember headlines and vibes. Which were huge bailouts given to banks and no bankers suffering criminal consequences.
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I'm so tired of this narrative. The TARP money from the banks was all paid back and the consequences of the banks failing in 2008 and 2009 would've hurt many more people much more profoundly.
The Lever@LeverNews
How did America go from Obama to Trump? Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine tells @davidsirota it wasn’t some great mystery: Democrats bailed out banks, abandoned working people, and let corporate power keep running the party. Go and listen to the full episode over on The Lever's Youtube channel.
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@ZaidJilani Is it worth try to do small reforms that may or may not have a large impact or to do nothing but call for the return of a law that will have a very tough time being passed?
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You may not like it, but this is what peak moderate performance looks like
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Graham Platner in interview with The Lever on assault weapons: “I gotta say assault weapons ban stuff, I mean, I know a lot of people, including a lot of Republicans who aren’t gun people who are like, ‘Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable. Maybe he should do that.’ And I’m just, like, I honestly just disagree.” “I’ve spent a lot of time in the gun world, and I just know things like safe storage, limiting access, training. I honestly think those things are so much more legitimately impactful than banning a type of gun.”
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@ChazNuttycombe No it wasn't. You fought, won, got cheated, and now people are more motivated than when you started.
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DEMs spent over $65 million to win that VA redistricting referendum. A total waste of time and $$$.
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@PotatoMcWhiskey I think they should have made trees where you could change to historically accurate civs. Like the Romans could choose to eventually become Byzantines, maybe have a path to become america in a certain era by being english in a previous one. Would make more sense at least.
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This is the Civ 7 NPC opinion lmao
Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸@nikicaga
Its crazy they did "permanent leaders, changeable civs" instead of the MUCH more logical "permanent civs, changeable leaders"
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